The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-11
WEARS A BOYS SUIT.
How a Fifteen Year Old Girl Enjoyed
Herself for Two Weeks

Herself for Two Weeks
n. Y. World
Clad in boys clothing and so mortified
by her strange position that she kept
both her hands clasped over her face,
fifteen year old Mamie Mcnamara stood
before Justice O'Reilly at jefferson Mar
ket yesterday, charged by her father
with stealing $1S5 from him, and by the
detectives who arrested her with wear
ing male attire.
Mamie lived with her parents. who
keep grocery at No. $40 West Twenty
sixth street. and went to the public
school in Twenty-eigthth street. west of
Ninth avenue. May 20 Mamie, it is al
legged, stole S1S5 from the store and pro-
ceeded at once to buy clothing for her
self. She purchased black silk dress, a
a red Jersey waist. a cream-colOfed lack
ct, patent leather Oxford ties and big
straw hat. Having dOnned this attire,
she went to the barber shop of Gustave
Rieff, at No. 400 Eighth avenue, and had
her hair cut short. She then went to
school and told her teacher she was go
ing to Fall River, Mass. While Mamie
was at school her mothermissed S1SJ and
told her husband, who then went to
school and was greatly astOnished when
he saw his daughter in her rich clothing.
She told her father that the dress be
longed to girl named Farley. She then
left To get her hat in order to accompany
her yather home, but she left the school
house by another door and escaped. The
matter was then reported To Inspector
Byrnes, and Detectives Liston and Ho-
gan word put on the case.
The girl was traced to a house at Sew
enth avenue and Twenty-sixth street,
where she had rented a room, telling the
landlady that she was a cigarette maker,
but she had left when the detectives
went there. A few days later the detec-
tives learned that she was seen walking
in Central Park dressed in bows cloth
ing.
After Mamie had been away "A little
over a week. Mrs, Mcnamara received
the following letter:
NEW YORK. MAY 81.
Mrs. McNamara-I am sorry to tell
you that your daughter has committed
suicide by shooting herself, in my rooms
on the eth of this month. She told me
that she was put up to it by some girls.
and told me to say nothing about it. She
told me that all her people We're living.
and even she told me where she lived.
She said before she killed herself that the
only two she felt sorry for was her sis
ter's baby Nelly and her own brother
Johnny. She said she liked the rest of
you very much. but she loved them
dearly. | buried her Sunday in Green
wood Cemetery in one of my own
graves, where the rest of my children
are buried. She told me not to write to
you until she was long dead and gone.
She got the room from me through the
acquaintance of "A young girl. L Will
| not state to you the address of where /
live; L will simply tell you my name. as
intend to move, so that no trouble will
be created. Yours truly,
Mrs. WILSON.
The revolver is still in my possession,
| and the bullets also. She put four bull
lets into her head; she was sick before
she killed herself, and L had a doctor to
her so when she was dead | only went
| and got the burial lines.
The poor mother was greatly worried
| by this letter until Mamie's teacher as
sured her that ManHe had written it.
| Yesterday morning about 3 O'Clock the
| detectives found her in her boys attire
| III the hallway of restaurant on Ninth
| avenue, between Twenty-seventh and
| Twenty -eigthth streets. She told them
| she was going into the restaurant to get
something to eat. When asked why she
| had discarded dresses. she said that the
| Farley girl had stolen all her fine cloth
ing and the money she had. and that
this girl had also induced her to steal
from her father. She said she did not
know where the Farley girl lived. She
denied that she wrote the letter which
| her mother had received.
| At jefferson Market the detectives and
| Agent Stocking, of the Society for the
| Prevention of Cruelty To- Children, said
they believed she was lying and asked
that she be committed for day or two.
| Mamie was given into the care of the
Society and was taken to their rooms,
where girls clothing was provided for
her. She said that the boys suit had
been given her by the woman with
whom she boarded when the girl Farley
stole all her own clothing.